{"id":959257,"date":"2025-09-04T08:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959257"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:34:08","slug":"eu-trade-chief-stalls-google-fine-after-trump-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/04\/eu-trade-chief-stalls-google-fine-after-trump-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"EU trade chief stalls Google fine after Trump threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU&#8217;s trade chief insisted Wednesday he fully backed the bloc&#8217;s antitrust probe into Google after it emerged he hit pause on plans to fine the tech giant &#8212; seemingly for fear of US retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>An EU official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, told AFP that a political battle had broken out inside the bloc&#8217;s executive after trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic this week delayed punishing the US behemoth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU&#8217;s trade chief insisted Wednesday he fully backed the bloc&#8217;s antitrust probe into Google after it emerged he hit pause on plans to fine the tech giant &#8212; seemingly for fear of US retaliation. An EU official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, told AFP that a political battle had broken out inside the bloc&#8217;s executive after trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic this week delayed punishing the US behemoth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}